Life Drawing - Post 7

Half an hour drawings with 20 minutes spent drawing - ten minutes on marker shading.

Life Drawing - Post 6

Portait drawings

Life Drawing - Post 5

Longer half hour poses using pastel pencil. 

I really enjoy working in pastel pencil, starting in much lighter colours and progressively working dark as I become more sure of the lines being in the correct place. It also helps to see where you've altered line work to help improve work in the future.

I also prefer using pastel pencil as a shading medium, as it is soft and blendable, rather than the harsher lines you get with marker or pencil.

Life Drawing - Post 2

These are another batch of short 30 second drawings, intended to capture form and motion, rather than detail. This time we used marker pens.
I feel like i worked better for this type of timed drawing using marker, as it meant that i didn't focus quite so much on the fine details and worked harder on getting down more of the flow of the figure in general.
The lines in this work tend to be quite straight - though i have still worked using volumes to block out general shapes within the figures, such as the hips and shoulders.

Life Drawing - Post 3

These are longer drawings that I did earlier in the semester - ranging from about 15 minutes to half an hour.
This was before I was particularly confident using shapes to block out volumes in the figure, and so I think a lot of the proportions are slightly off. I also was struggling to get the entirity of the figure into the drawing, as i was struggling to get the proportions right.

Life Drawing - Post 4

Some quick sketchy drawings from short poses done by the model.

These end up being useful for sketching out animation storyboards, and I feel have definitely improved over the course of the module.

Also i think that getting the first quick sketches of a pose down right help to get the entirety of the drawing right when you are going into more detail.

Life Drawing - Post 1

   

These are some of the 30 second to 3 minute timed life drawing pieces from the first few weeks of this module. They're very rough and sketchy and I wasn't particularly good at getting the entire figure down so a lot of them aren't particularly useful to use as reference for sculpting work.

While I was trying to work quickly using shapes to indicate volumes such as the hips, I was still concentrating too much on the smaller details of the body, rather than getting volumes down on paper for the entire figure first, then working on the finer details.